Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Checking your sources

These are the ways to investigate whether a video is a hoax or not:

+Ask these questions to yourself:

1. Is it clear who has written the information?
2. Are the aims of the video clear?
3. Does the video achieve its aims?
4. Can the information be checked?
5. When was the video produced?
6. Is the information biased in any ways?

+ Investigate whether if the evidences supported the video's findings

+ Look at some of the comments of the video, if it's repeat a pattern of negative comments, it MIGHT be a hoax video.

+ Are you suspiscious that the video might use omission?

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